I know we've done this before but who has the best resume/record and how would a Froch victory over Kessler next weekend enhance the record of the Cobra? Would a victory over Kessler potentially give Froch the best record of any British fighter in the modern era?
Think Hatton has the better Record (He did defeat the #1 in his division), but Froch has the better Resume....if that makes sense!
Hatton has the best individual win, but Froch's body of work takes a huge, steaming dump all over Hatton's IMO. One great win, a few good/goodish ones and then a load of bums during his WBU reign of error. Froch doesn't have that great win, but he's got several very good ones and defeated all of his leading domestic contemporaries by stoppage.
Froch for me and he's going to make it even more distinctive imo. If he beats Kessler he'll have say... another 4 fights in him? Potentially another 4 top wins over the best super middleweights. (Say a Pascal rematch, Hopkins, Golovkin maybe and Groves?)
4 seems alot, how old is he now? If he beats kessler i wondrr if they will make it best outta 3. If bute vs pascal was going ahead that naturally set up his next fight.
Froch for me, he may talk a power of **** but hes not a ducker nor scared to fight the best, boxing would be alot better if we had more fighters with that kind of attitude.
problem for froch is he'll never be #1 in his division, got beat by somone calzaghe put a beating on & doesnt quite have that career defining big win yet. as it stands id say hatton cos he was 'the man' at his division which helps alot
Alot of people will remember for the bute fight as he was the underdog going into the fight and proceeded to smash bute into next week
So of Tszyu, Mayweather, Cotto, Vivan Harris and Gatti at 140lb at the time, you claim he was "the man" by sitting at home defending a WBU bauble against Carlos Vilches and Freddie Pendleton ? He was badly hurt to the body by Urango and was beaten arguably by a pretender in Collazo, whom was ranked outside the top 100 at the time. He struggled terribly against southpaws, having been dropped by Eamon Magee for the first time. Judah would have messed Ricky up. I state the above as a massive fan of Ricky, ive been to lots of his fights and he is one of my favourites. But as a boxing fan, Froch's record and achievments are absolutely night and day to Hatton's body of work.
Froch easy All Hatton ever did was beat a shot old Kostya by cheating with his uncle as the ref. Sparked by Pac, PBF and senshenko, glass jaw, glass bodied bum
That's an overly simple and unfair way of looking at it. Wladimir Klitshcko has never beaten the real champion at heavyweight, whereas Haye did at cruiserweight, yet not many would claim Haye has a better record that Wlad.
for a start hatton beat kostya do you honestly think harris and gatti had anything for hatton at 140?? by the time cotto had moved upto welterweight after hatton fought kostya mayweathers 140 run was a joke he fought brussels gatti & mitchell and got the hell out of the division, never attempted to unify or beat the ring champion at 140.. went to 147 for the bigger fights and bigger money as he was desperate for DLH to make him a true PPV star so mayweather can never be considered the top man at 140 judah is the definition of a mental midget he might of been awkward for ricky to begin with but if one thing history has taught us its that zab is easily breakable mayweather didnt move upto 140 untill after ricky beat tszyu and was the 'ring' lineal JWW champ may not of been the strongest division but its kinda undisputed that hatton was top of the pile and unified the division the WBU fights with the likes of vilches and that were before kostya and before he was 'the man' at the division and was working his way off collazo was at 147 and has nothing to do with him been the top man at 140 the urango fight wasnt even remotely close, he won all but one round on all 3 judges cards so i dont think he was that badly hurt at all he put a lesson on urango & as a champ at 147 how the hell was collazo ranked out the top 100? he was top 5-7 in the world dont get me wrong froch is a hell of a fighter and if he beats kessler and ward in a rematch then theres no doubt about it, but as it stands im still goin for ricky, its only an opinon though
Ricky Hatton was never "The Man" at 140lbs, even the bias as **** british tv presenters knew he was a manufactured fraud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDHaJVsomj4